East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) Company Bahadur, or simply The Company.}} was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times.Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and later, opium. The company also initiated the beginnings of the British Empire in South Asia.
The company eventually came to rule large areas of present-day Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company-ruled areas in the region gradually expanded after the Battle of Polashi (Plassey) in 1757 and by 1858 most of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh was either ruled by the company or princely states closely tied to it by treaty. Following the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of present-day Bangladesh, Pakistan and India in the form of the new British Indian Empire.
The company subsequently experienced recurring problems with its finances, despite frequent government intervention. The company was dissolved in 1874 under the terms of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it vestigial, powerless, and obsolete. The official government machinery of the British Empire had assumed its governmental functions and absorbed its armies. Provided by Wikipedia
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A list of the adventurers in the stock of the honourable East-India-Company : who by their adventures are capable of being chosen committees for the year 1682.
Published 1682“…East India Company…”
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The East-India Company, appellants. Mr. Attorney General at the relation of Walter Whitfeild, John Earl, and Thomas Killner. Respendents [sic]. : The appellants case.
Published 1693“…East India Company…”
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A true relation of the vniust, cruell, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Neatherlandish gouernour and councel there : Also the cop... by Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1624
Published 1624“…East India Company…”
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The petition and remonstrance of the Gouernor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies : exhibited to the Honorable the House of Commons assembled in Parliame...
Published 1628“…East India Company…”
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A true relation of the vniust, cruell, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Neatherlandish gouernour and councel there : Also the cop... by Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1624
Published 1624“…East India Company…”
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A true relation of the vniust, cruell, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherlandish gouernour and councell there : Also the cop... by Skinner, John, fl. 1624
Published 1632“…East India Company…”
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The lawes or standing orders of the East India Company
Published 1621“…East India Company…”
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Een waer verhael vande onlancksche ongerechte, wreede, ende onmenschelycke procedure teghen de Enghelsche tot Amboyna in Oost-Indien, door de Nederlanlanders [sic] aldaer ghemaeckt... by Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1624
Published 1624“…East India Company…”
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A true declaration of the intollerable wrongs done to Richard Boothby, merchant of India, by two lewd servants to the honorable East India Company, Richard Wylde and George Page :... by Boothby, Richard
Published 1644“…East India Company…”
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An impartial vindication of the English East-India-Company : from the unjust and slanderous imputations cast upon them in a treatise intituled, A justification of the directors of...
Published 1688“…East India Company…”
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A list of the names of all the adventurers in the stock of the honourable the East-India-Company, the 12th day of April, 1684 : whereof those marked with a * are not capable (by th...
Published 1691“…East India Company…”
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A List of their names who by their adventures are capable of being chosen committees for the year 1675
Published 1675“…East India Company…”
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A memento to the East-India Companies, or, An abstract of a remonstrance presented to the House of Commons, by the East-India Company, in the year 1628 : with some few animadvertio...
Published 1700“…East India Company…”
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By-laws proposed by the governour, deputy-governour, and committee of nine, pursuant to an order of the general court for the better manageing and regulating the companies affairs...
Published 1695“…East India Company…”
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A List of their names who by their adventures are capable of being chosen committees for the year 1681
Published 1681“…East India Company…”
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The case of the governour and company of merchants of London, trading to the East-Indies, humbly represented to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.
Published 1698“…East India Company…”
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A reply on behalf of the present East-India Company, to a paper of complaints, commonly called, The thirteen articles : delivered by their adversaries, to the members of the honour...
Published 1698“…East India Company…”
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By-laws, constitutions, orders and rules : for the good government of the Corporation of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East-Indies, ...
Published 1701“…East India Company…”
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A list of the names of all the adventurers in the stock of the governour and company of merchants of London, trading into the East-Indies, the 4th of April, 1700. Whereof those mar...
Published 1700“…East India Company…”
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Answer to all the material objections against the present East-India-Company
Published 1689“…East India Company…”
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